و ح ي

Arabic

Root

و ح ي • (w-ḥ-y)

1. related to things being driven by mental inducement

Derived terms

• Form I: وَحَى (waḥā, “to inspire, to reveal”)
  • Verbal noun: وَحْي (waḥy)
  • Active participle: وَاحٍ (wāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مَوْحِيّ (mawḥiyy)
• Form II: وَحَّى (waḥḥā, “to make hasten”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوْحِيَة (tawḥiya)
  • Active participle: مُوَحٍّ (muwaḥḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُوَحًّى (muwaḥḥan)
• Form IV: أَوْحَى (ʔawḥā, “to indicate, to insinuate, to inspire, to reveal, to hint”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيحَاء (ʔīḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُوحٍ (mūḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُوحًى (mūḥan)
• Form V: تَوَحَّى (tawaḥḥā, “to hasten”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَحٍّ (tawaḥḥin)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَحٍّ (mutawaḥḥin)
• Form VI: تَوَاحَى (tawāḥā, “to indicate to each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَاحٍ (tawāḥin)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَاحٍ (mutawāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَوَاحًى (mutawāḥan)
• Form X: اِسْتَوْحَى (istawḥā, “to ask for inspiration, to beg to reveal; to derive, to deduce, to take inspiration for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِيحَاء (istīḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَوْحٍ (mustawḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَوْحًى (mustawḥan)

• وَحَاء (waḥāʔ, “haste”)
• وَحِيّ (waḥiyy, “in haste, in hurry”)
  • أَوْحَى (ʔawḥā, “more in hurry”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ح ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 446
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “و ح ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1203
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “و ح ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1385